ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
Nos, 100, 101. | APRIL and MAY. [1895. 
CCCCLIII.—SUGAR-CANE DISEASE IN BARBADOS. 
The rind-disease in sugar-cane ( T'richos jspheria Sacchari, Massee) was 
escribed in the Kew Bulletin, 1893, p. 149. The  rcot-disease 
NaF Stamm vu Went) was discussed in Kew Bulletin, aan 
ent investigation has shown that these are diffe 
forms of one and: the same disease. The treatment of the fangsid ond 
insect pests affecting sugar-cane in the West Indies was published in 
Kew Bulletin, ie p. 167. Since that time the subject te ae 
that ths d Hes ae been done to meet the danger which seriously 
Sa fa he sugar industry in the West Tides The latest in- 
rmatic and i -— contained in a Report of s Commission appointed 
M.G 
any other pest affecting the sugar-cane. 
the grub of a moth (Chilo saccharalis), figured in Kew Bulletin, 1892, 
p. 153; i DR described with remedial measures in Kew Bulletin, 
1894, pp. 1 
From this ferite the following extracts are taken :— 
Tue Rinp Funes. 
In riding round the margin of a a i canes infected with the aia i 
ungus are first noticed by dark nadie rown marks, in one or two 
joints towards the middle or i cane. These marks are 
easily distinguished from sun-burn Gor use of their diffused « c 
indistinct edges, and by its being evident that they are not mere sarfäte 
stains, but that the tissues beneath are affected. This “ Red P " on 
the canes is first noticed in July, and from October onwards gradually 
becomes more and more abundant up to the time of the ripening of the 
canes. It is by no means found only in poor looking canes, dh is often 
resent in fine looking plants. This red patch having made its appear- 
ance, rapidly spreads upwards and do wnwards, the infected area Y Jarka 
in paee and is evidently rotten. Little black specks make their 
appeara e, breaking from the inside to the surface of the cane, being 
the cane between the joints, finally the cane shrivels and dries u 
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